How to become a global citizen?

How to become a global citizen? Top global citizen skills

1. The cognitive dimension

2. The socio-emotional dimension

3. The behavioural dimension

Global citizenship is a sense of belonging to a broader community. If a person understands they are a part of a bigger whole, a part of a broader community, and acts to make a positive contribution to the community, then they can be considered a global citizen.

Top global citizen skills

• information and technology literacy,
• life and career skills,
• learning and innovation skills (critical thinking, creativity, communication).

Information, media & tech literacy

• Information literacy means to accurately comprehend information, meaning.
• Media literacy is familiarity with the various media through which information is produced/shared.
• Technology literacy means to understand and use digital tools and softwares.

Critical and creative thinking

• Critical thinking is the ability to question and analyse the facts, your own thinking process (metacognition), knowledge sources, and make judgement.
• Creative thinking means being able to find creative, original solutions to a problem.

Flexibility & initiative

• Flexibility is defined as the ability to adapt and change plans as required, having in mind the original goal.
• Taking initiative means to act without being asked to do so. Starting things, setting goals, working towards making a change.

How to develop global citizen skills?

Read more of authors from different cultures

• Read books written by people from other cultures and subcultures.
• The same goes for watching movies, listening to music, podcasts, influencers - explore those made by people from different cultures and regions. If you grew up in France, you might read a book, or listen to music from another country.

Travel with a purpose, or just travel and explore

• Travel abroad to learn about other cultures, history, food, music, sports, art.
• Learning language basics and the way of life of the country you are travelling to.

Start learning a language

• A big part of learning a language is learning about its cultural context.
• Even if you are not good at languages, you can learn about the culture, the past of the language, how it is different or similar to yours.

Find cross-cultural passion, such as cooking

• Explore different cuisines
• Explore which ingredients and tools are used, and where to find them

Intern abroad

• Connect with a student from another country
• Connect via internship programs from another country
• Take an internship abroad, experience first hand.

Volunteering abroad

• Participate, engage, work for a cause
• Join programs with a global cause

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